Brand, engage and understand with Bitly. Unleash the power of the link.

Since 2008, Bitly has been committed to the power of the link. Privately held, based in NYC, Bitly shortens more than 1 billion links per month as an integral part of social, SMS, email efforts (and more) from publishers, brands, government organizations, educational institutions, non-profits and individual users. Processing more than 6 billion clicks on those links per month, Bitly remains the leader in an optimal sharing experience, and continues to unveil new products while generating one of the most valuable proprietary datasets in the world today.

We've continued to grow, and once again it's time to expand our fabulous team! You'll be working in a flat, transparent, fast-paced start-up environment in the heart of Union Square NYC. We offer competitive compensation and have a robust benefits package. Most importantly, we offer you the chance to work with smart people on difficult problems at huge scale that impact how millions of people use the Internet

Front-End Engineer

You enjoy bending the DOM to your will, crafting rich, performant cross platform interfaces, and making browsers do things they didn't know they were capable of doing. You manipulate CSS/JS as if they were silly putty. You'll be working from the application layer forward (server-side), working closely with both our UI/UX team, and our infrastructure team. Python experience is a plus.

You have the following:

A strong understanding of JavaScript outside of libraries / frameworks, i.e. the language itself, not just how to use jQuery, Angular, or Ember.

Deep understanding of:

Events

Remote Data

Closures

The DOM

Object Prototypes

Data Types

Scope

Detailed knowledge of CSS, the box model, semantic markup, and HTML5.

Experience with performance tuning re: script / css / image loading.

An understanding of application side security models, client side app hardening, XSRF, etc.